tse.va denotes willing or desiring, whether in a ruler's choices, divine appointment, or a speaker's desire to know.

The attested use expresses volition: choosing whom to affect or appoint, and personally desiring to know something. The same verb occurs in statements about the Most High giving rule to whomever he chooses, a king acting toward whomever he chooses, and the speaker's desire to ascertain the truth about the fourth beast.

1. Willing, choosing, or desiring an outcome · dominant

   In Daniel 4:32 and Daniel 5:21, the clause concerns the Most High giving or appointing rule to whomever he chooses. In Daniel 5:19, the active participle occurs three times in the sequence of whom the king killed, struck, exalted, and brought low; in Daniel 7:19, the first-person perfect marks the speaker's desire to ascertain the truth about the fourth beast.

   Daniel 4:32Daniel 5:19Daniel 5:21Daniel 7:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly presents the volitional clauses as “whomever he wills” in Daniel 4:32 and Daniel 5:21, “whom he wished” in Daniel 5:19, and “I desired” in Daniel 7:19. These renderings confirm the clauses' overall presentation rather than assigning every English word mechanically to the lemma.